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- From: miranda@hitchcock (Johann Miranda)
- Subject: Re: Advice on organizing linux users locally
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.065400.18858@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 06:54:00 GMT
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- In article <93Jan2.021018ast.52@ug.cs.dal.ca> pitzel@ug.cs.dal.ca (brad John pitzel) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >I have put out a posting locally at my university asking
- >people who are using linux or interested in doing so to
- >send me email. I am interested in getting local linux
- >users together to share info/files/etc, increasing the
- >'linux awareness' of the community, and maybe
- >setting up a mirror of the SLS package for FTP.
- >
- >I am certain this have been done in many other
- >institutions around the world, so I am asking
- >for people's advice on what sort of activites
- >are popular to local linux groups. Any
- >success/failure stories would help!
- >
- >Thanks in advance,
- >Brad Pitzel
- >pitzel@ug.cs.dal.ca
- >
-
- I just did the same for the state of Iowa (yes, we have computers here, to
- helps count the corn kernels :).
-
- Obviously, I am _very interested_ in the type of activities that linux
- users/hackers can appreciate. although not a hacker myself, I LIKE this
- OS. So, please, leep this thread going and contribute if you have something
- to say. thanks. Adios. -JEM-
- >
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